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A mechanism of color pattern formation in ladybird beetles
- October 02, 2018
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Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. A research team focused on the multicolored Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (also known as the harlequin ladybird), which lives mainly in Siberia and East Asia, and shows >200 color patterns within a species. The team has identified a single gene that regulates such highly diverse ladybird color patterns.
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"A mechanism of color pattern formation in ladybird beetles", MachPrinciple, October 02, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/A-mechanism-of-color-pattern-formation-in-ladybird-beetles
